Kunjana Parashar is a poet and freelance poetry editor from Mumbai. Her debut poetry book They Gather Around Me, the Animals, selected by Diane Seuss, won the 2024 Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Award. She is the recipient of the Toto Funds the Arts Award and the Deepankar Khiwani Memorial Prize. Besides being nominated for Best of the Net, Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Best Small Fictions, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.